Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-16
HORSE GOSSIP

next January.
There have been 1902 accessions to the
? 80 list this year.
Sir Dixon is the most popular candidate
for the next Kentucky Derby.
Mr.. Pierre Lorrilard has made $lG,tO
out of Tuxedo Park this year.
A two-year old colt by Messenger Duroc
is credited with going half-mile in 1:l51,
"A 23l gait.
1t is thought that by the year 1900 there
will be over 10000 horses with records of
| 2:30 or better
The stallion Rossington, recently m-
| ported to this country, was sold at auC
ton the other day, for $4,000.
Mr.. George w. Leavitts three year-old
| Electioneer stallion Elatiou showed a
quarter recently at Mystic park in 3. sec
onds, a 2:2S gait.
Green Morris had quite n season of it,
His stable won SG5, 0O0 of which his clever
two year olds, Speciality and Sir Dixon
| captured $4,000.
The Dryers now announce that HAM
ver's lameuess was oCCasOned solely by Il
| bruise on his heel, and the great colt will
| he all right soon
In Chicago, few days ago, the tele-
/ graph mixed up Splan and Spellmau, and
/ il was reported that the famous driver had
died in New York.
! The horses Daisy Hamilton and Bertha,
who had never seen each other before,
were driven miie hooked double to
! ton road wagon a few days ago, III 2:lN.
| without skip.
! The bay geldng Wells Fargo, record
I211, by George NJ Patchen, ir, has been
! purchased by an Australian gentleman,
and will ne shipped i'll few days from
! San Francisco, Cal.
During the recent meeting at Kansas
! City, Il. j. Baldwin purchased of Ed
| Corrigan the great spirit mare Pearl Jen-
nings, and it is quite likely that she will
| be bred to Grimstead ia the spring.
Frank Miller has sold his famous team
of bay horses, Prince and Skip, to
Brooklyn gentleman for S4l00. Mr.. Mil
Ter paid 5000 for the animals and less than
4 year ago offered them for sale for $1,000.
The horse Ben Starr, who has no ped-
| gree, has won over s., $50 for his owner
| this season. Ben Starr was purchased by
his present owner for $50 three years ago,
and an offer of $500 was recently re
fused for him.
One of the wisest legislative enactments
was the passage Of the Ives pool bill by
| the New York legislature BY it pool
selling was legaliZed, and the State trea-
surv was enriched $25 600 thereby.
"No," said iacetious travelling man
at horse race, 81 can't pick the winners,
but | eau pick the losers" Hump" re
i
pick all the losers and bet on tie balance 2"
Ten thousand dollars is the price asked
| for Arrow, the California four year-Old
PAGER, that made record of 2:l4 this sea
SOU. 1t is understood that an offer of
/ $3.50 has already been refused
Ora Bishop Of McIndoes Falls, has in his
young stallion Bucephaius a well-bred
horse. The colt was foaed this year and
| is hy Morgan Wilkes, grandson OF George
] Ill ,4u ~ ha of
Clifford Morgan,
Doane Cogswel of Bradford, Mass, has
sent his stallion Riverside by Mambrino
! Wilkes, to Vermont in the vicinity of Ii
conderoga, n y, where he will stand
next season, a man by the name of Ham
ilton having him on shares.
The Parker horse, owned for many
years by William Parker of Manchester,
was sired by Jones's Cassius NJ. Clay, jr.,
son of Cassius NJ. Clay, dam a Morgan
mare unknown breeding.
Since the boom in the Onward family
Messrs. Franklin and Sherman's young
Onward stallion Ambition, dam Belle
Thorne by Hero ThOrndale, has come into
prominence in New England and is eX-
pected to develop especially fine results
with the Morgan mares CT Vermont.
Jack Mcdonald paid out some of the
| heavy winnings of this season for some
we'll bred race horses last week. He
| gave S2350 for the colt by Rossiten, out of
Dry Toast, and 23lO0 for the tilly by En-
quirer, out Of Brunette
The Dryers have engagements for
about 100000 stakes for next season.
| And they viii get a good share of it too.
The horses who will contest for the money
are Hanover, Bessie June, kiugtlSh, King
stou, Ballston, Prospect and the selections
| from their present vearling.
when George Wilkes made his advent